Brooke Williams' Open Midnight Book Reading

Date: March 01, 2017

Time: 7:00 PM

Location: Back of Beyond Books

Price: Free

Open Midnight weaves two parallelstories about the great wilderness. BrookeWilliams’s year alone with his dogground-truthing wilderness maps ofsouthern Utah, and that of his great-greatgreat-grandfather, who in 1863 made hisway with a group of Mormons from Englandacross the wilderness to Utah. The book isalso about two levels of history: personal,as represented by great-great-great-grandfatherWilliam Williams, and collective, asrepresented by Charles Darwin, who livedin Shrewsbury, England, at about the sametime as Williams.

The phrase open midnight, as Williams sees it, evokesthe time between dusk and dawn, between where wehave been and where we are going, and theunconscious where all possibilities are hidden.